Modifying a textfile

2009-09-03 Thread Olli Virta
Hi! So I got this big textfile. It's full of data from a database. About 150 or more rows or lines in a textfile. There's three first rows that belong to the same subject. And then next three rows belong to another subject and so on, to the end of the file. What I need to do, is put the three

Re: Modifying a textfile

2009-09-03 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:21 AM, Olli Virtallvi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! So I got this big textfile. It's full of data from a database. About 150 or more rows or lines in a textfile. There's three first rows that belong to the same subject. And then next three rows belong to another subject

Re: Modifying a textfile

2009-09-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:21:25 -0700, Olli Virta wrote: What I need to do, is put the three rows that goes together and belong to certain subject, on a one line in the output textfile. And the next three rows again on a one new line. And that goes with the rest of the data to the end of the

Re: Modifying a textfile

2009-09-03 Thread konstantin
On Sep 3, 2:21 pm, Olli Virta llvi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! So I got this big textfile. It's full of data from a database. About 150 or more rows or lines in a textfile. There's three first rows that belong to the same subject. And then next three rows belong to another subject and so on,